Details of Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area

Prescott.
The No. 4 express fom Montreal to Toronto passed here at her usual
time, 2.20 a.m. having a large train of coaches well filled.
After leaving this station and when passing the semaphore west of the
station, the cowcatcher caught a cow which was one of three or four on
the track and carried her along the track about three or four hundred
feet to the first crossing west of town. The cow was carried over
the cattleguards to the east side of the public road , but fell
partially into that on the west side of the road, lifting the engine
off the track and throwing it over the slight embankment to the south
side of the railway. The engine lies a perfect wreck with all its
upper furnishings twisted off. The engineer Howarth, held
heroically to his place and was found a mangled corpse, partly under
the engine with one hand around the whistle and the escaping steam
pouring forth on his side.